NEWS FROM THE TOOLING, MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATION:
Presidential Candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter visits manufacturing sites in Oakland and Macomb Counties to talk trade issues on Friday, March 30th.
He says Chinese are employing U.S. multinationals to neutralize American trade policy. 

Farmington Hills, MI, March 29, 2007---
Representative Duncan Hunter (R-California), a 2008 candidate for President of the United States, was recently interviewed by MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGY NEWS and stated that for “practical purposes, U.S. multinationals have become Chinese corporations”.  Hunter further opined on other trade policies that have decimated small and medium-sized domestic manufacturers.  “I would junk NAFTA and CAFTA. But let’s do one thing at a time. Number one, allow our businesses that are being damaged by the illegal subsidy, which is known as (China’s) currency devaluation, to go after the cheating. Bring the Chinese to the table and make them understand that we’re not going to allow them to have access to the American market unless they do it under the rules.” FULL ARTICLE



NEWS FROM THE TOOLING, MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATION:
Duncan Hunter (R-California), 2008 Presidential Candidate, says US multinationals have become Chinese Corporations.
He says Chinese are employing U.S. multinationals to neutralize American trade policy. 

Farmington Hills, MI, March 14, 2007---
Representative Duncan Hunter (R-California), a 2008 candidate for President of the United States, was recently interviewed by MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGY NEWS and stated that for “practical purposes, U.S. multinationals have become Chinese corporations”.  Hunter further opined on other trade policies that have decimated small and medium-sized domestic manufacturers.  “I would junk NAFTA and CAFTA. But let’s do one thing at a time. Number one, allow our businesses that are being damaged by the illegal subsidy, which is known as (China’s) currency devaluation, to go after the cheating. Bring the Chinese to the table and make them understand that we’re not going to allow them to have access to the American market unless they do it under the rules.

“What we've done is we have acquiesced to cheating. That was manifested in the split in the National Association of Manufacturers. The big guys (multinational members of NAM) said, essentially, we don't mind the one-way street because we're on the other end of the street. We are Chinese corporations for practical purposes. That is the essence of what their conversation was to the domestic manufacturers, and hence the split.  FULL ARTICLE

NEWS FROM THE TOOLING, MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATION:
The Tooling, Manufacturing & Technologies Association draws a line in the sand to fight for its members against multinational corporate-controlled globalization.
Existing trade agreements have compromised national security and undermined our national sovereignty.

Farmington Hills, Michigan, January 4, 2007---
The Michigan Tooling Association, in a landmark special member election, has voted to change the mission, scope, and reach of its association to become the Tooling, Manufacturing & Technologies Association (TMTA).  Not of Michigan.  Or the Great Lakes or the Midwest.  We’ve decided not to be constrained by self-imposed boundaries any longer.  So, we’ve become the Tooling, Manufacturing & Technologies Association.  Period.  We’ve decided, also, to draw a line in the sand and demonstrate resolve not to fade into economic and political irrelevance.

Our goal is to attract manufacturing and technologies companies in Michigan and other states that feel that the political advocacy and association representation that they have received up until now is insufficient and inadequate.  It’s time to get noisy.  Domestic manufacturers have been sold down the river.

Take many members of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), for instance. They feel that they have been betrayed by John Engler and his Executive Committee most recently as a result of Engler and his Executive Committee’s decision not to support HR 1498, the House Resolution having to do with Chinese currency manipulation after there had been an actual vote taken by the membership of NAM directing NAM to support the House Resolution.  As egregious as this was, it was the quintessential example of an association that is ‘staff driven’ as opposed to ‘member driven’.  FULL ARTICLE